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Meanings of pin down in английском

испанский
clavar

Define clearly.

clavar
каталонский
subjectar
испанский
prender

Attach with or as if with a pin.

subjectar
Синонимы
Examples for "pin up"
Examples for "pin up"
1
Right now you couldn't shove a hot buttered pin up my sphincter.
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
2
I'll ask mamma for a piece of green baize to pin up.
Emilie the Peacemaker
3
Press the point of the curling pin up the centre of each petal.
The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling
4
I'm trading a bobby pin up until I get a house.
News.com.au
5
Russia's most famous pin up model might just be Putin himself.
Wired
португальский
aprisionar
испанский
atrapar

Place in a confining or embarrassing position.

aprisionar
Usage of pin down in английском
1
Exactly why Green wants to do this is difficult to pin down.
Wired
2
Review:It is never an easy one to pin down, this Oxegen lark.
The Irish Times
3
Perhaps, it was the fact that he was harder to pin down.
The Irish Times
4
It was hard to pin down the exact reason for Footsie's rise.
The Irish Times
5
He smiled at me, with not quite enough nastiness to pin down.
Nothing in her way
6
She doesn't seem to have been an easy person to pin down.
A fugitive truth: an emma fielding mystery
7
There were probably several misses, but I could only pin down one.
The Guardian
8
France's nuclear lobby is hard to pin down because it is intricate.
Reuters
9
Someone else was lurking about: a sneaky fellow hard to pin down.
Dancer’s Lament
10
It is likely to be very faint and hard to pin down.
The South African
11
The meeting with Lucinda had been a dream hard to pin down.
Kennedy's brain
12
This makes transactions harder to track, and perpetrators harder to pin down.
The South African
13
He says post punk as a genre is hard to pin down.
Radio NZ
14
What's more, the facts here were proving mighty hard to pin down.
The devil's bones: a body farm novel
15
Perhaps that's why he is such a hard man to pin down.
The Irish Times
16
It was hard to pin down her location in such psychic chaos.
Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
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Translations for pin down
каталонский
subjectar
португальский
aprisionar
Pin down through the time
Pin down across language varieties
Ireland
Common
New Zealand
Common
United States of America
Common
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